Dawn Gibbons
Dawn Gibbons | |
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First Lady of Nevada | |
In office January 1, 2007 – July 21, 2010 |
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Preceded by | Dema Guinn |
Succeeded by | Kathleen Teipner Sandoval |
Member of the Nevada Assembly from the 25th district |
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In office 1991–1991 |
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Preceded by | Jim Gibbons |
Succeeded by | Jim Gibbons |
In office 1999–2005 |
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Preceded by | Brian Sandoval |
Succeeded by | Heidi Gansert |
Personal details | |
Born | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
March 9, 1954
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Jim Gibbons (1985–2010, divorced), Jim Hooban (2013-, engaged) |
Children | 1 |
Dawn Gibbons (born March 9, 1954) is an American politician from Nevada. She is the former First Lady of Nevada from 2007 to 2010, as well as the former wife of Governor Jim Gibbons, although they were divorced on July 21, 2010.
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Early and personal life
Dawn Gibbons was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to Nevada at the age of 20.[1] She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor's degree in geological studies. Following graduation, she owned and operated two wedding chapels in Reno, Nevada. During this period, she met her future husband, Jim Gibbons, then a Delta Air Lines pilot. They married in 1986. Together they have one child, Jimmy, now serving in the United States Navy and currently[when?] at NAS Whiting Field in flight training.
Political career
In 1991, Dawn Gibbons was appointed to the Nevada Assembly, filling a vacancy created when her husband resigned his seat in order to serve in the Persian Gulf War. She resigned from the state legislature in April 1991, allowing her husband to reclaim his seat.[clarification needed] Following her husband's reappointment to the seat, she resumed her career in business until 1998, when she was elected to the Nevada Assembly, serving from 1999 to 2005. During the 2006 election season, she was defeated in the Republican Party primary to succeed her husband in the U.S. House of Representatives, finishing in third place behind Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller, the eventual winner of both the primary and the general elections, and State Assemblywoman Sharron Angle. In that same election cycle, her husband won both the Republican primary and the general election to become Governor of Nevada.
Divorce
On May 2, 2008, the governor filed for divorce on grounds of incompatibility, citing an undisclosed incident in Reno, and asked the court to determine whether he or his wife would live at the Nevada Governor's Mansion in Carson City.[2]
On July 21, 2010, the divorce became final.[3]
Subsequent career
Gibbons debuted her talk radio show, The Dawn Gibbons Show, on Fox News on March 30, 2010, with Nevada Assembly Republican Minority Leader Heidi Gansert and U.S. Senator Harry Reid as her first guests. Gibbons endorsed Reid in his re-election bid, saying he "was the only one to call to see how I was [after filing for divorce]. The only elected official to do that. He's a gift from God."[4]
Gibbons is the Senior Vice President of Intermountain West Communications Company, and was a radio talk show host for Fox News, and co-hosted the Dawn & Jim Show and the Dawn & Rory Show.
In February, 2013, she announced her engagement to Jim Hooban, President of the Independent Nevada Doctors Exchange.[5]
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Nevada Assembly | ||
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Preceded by | Member of the Nevada Assembly from the 25th legislative district 1991 |
Succeeded by Jim Gibbons |
Preceded by | Member of the Nevada Assembly from the 25th legislative district 1999–2003 |
Succeeded by Heidi Gansert |
- Vague or ambiguous time from June 2015
- Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2010
- 1954 births
- Living people
- American talk radio hosts
- Politicians from Atlanta, Georgia
- University of Nevada, Reno alumni
- Members of the Nevada Assembly
- Nevada Republicans
- First Ladies and Gentlemen of Nevada
- Spouses of members of the United States House of Representatives
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